[FX.php List] Startup problems

Jonathan Woodard woodardj at umich.edu
Tue Nov 29 11:22:53 MST 2005


Ah, suppose that would have been useful info :-).  FMP 7.0v3

On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Are using FMP v6 or v7 as your data source?
>
> -Dale
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Jonathan Woodard wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 	So, I'm just getting started working with FX, because my employer  
>> wants to migrate some of our web presence from FileMaker's "Lasso"  
>> language to the more common, robust, PHP.  I am also new to  
>> Filemaker, which may be the source of some of my woes.
>>
>> When I try and get my FX object set up to communicate with the  
>> database, nothing happens...
>>
>> <code>
>> 	$dataObject = new FX("127.0.0.1" , 80);
>> 	$returnedData = $dataObject->FMDBNames();
>> 	
>> 	print_r($returnedData);
>> 	echo "=================================================";
>> 	print_r($dataObject);
>> </code>
>>
>> so i added those print_r statements to try and figure out what was  
>> up.  (for the $returnedData,) I get an object dump that appears to  
>> contain a stacktrace.  The root issue seems to be:
>>
>> fx_error Object ( [error_message_prefix] => [mode] => 1 [level] =>  
>> 1024 [code] => 100 [message] => FX: cURL could not retrieve Post  
>> data in RetrieveFM7Data(). A bad URL is the most likely reason.  
>> [userinfo] => [backtrace] =>
>> (I can post the backtrace if that would be helpful, but it just  
>> runs back to the "FMDBNames" call in the above snippet of code.)
>>
>> I have tried with a number of different IPs, the literal IP we use  
>> to connect FMPro7 clients to the database, as well as a DNS name  
>> of the database server, and this 127.0.0.1.  Unfortunately, the  
>> existing Lasso has no indication of a URL anywhere... (which lead  
>> me to try this localhost loopback)  Is there some configuration on  
>> the FileMaker side I've missed?  What else could this error be  
>> indicative of?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any insights on this issue... I guess I'll  
>> post this to the forum as well, since the mailing list is new (and  
>> I'm not sure how many people are on the mailing list yet)
>>
>> Jonathan Woodard
>> Web Software Developer
>> U of M School of Music
>>
>>
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